Straight kids can talk about their crushes.
Gay kids learn to hide them.
Straight couples cuddle in public.
Gay couples fear their safety if they do.
Straight couples hold hands walking.
Gay couples carefully consider the risk.
Pride matters. Things are not equal
Used to date a person who ran the dudes that worked there and can confirm that is the WORST human on earth. Made a stereotypical terrible car salesman look like an honest person.
My aunt paid off her house in 2011.
Threw a party. Cried happy tears. Said she finally owned something in this world.
Property taxes were $3,200 a year back then.
Today they’re $9,800.
HOA went from $180 a month to $440.
Homeowners insurance doubled after the storms in her area.
She’s 71 on a fixed income writing three checks every month on a house she already paid for.
She told me last week she’s thinking about selling.
The house she spent 30 years paying off.
The house she cried over.
Because she can’t afford to stay in something she owns.
You never really own it.
You just run out of people to pay and find new ones.
my mom once told me "accountability will always feel like an attack when you are not ready to acknowledge how your behavior harms others" and that shit is real.
High af. As a touch deprived child it took me so long to realize my dog just wants me to pet him for no reason sometimes. I’m like you are fed, housed, and appear to be fully functioning. Why r u in my face. I had not accounted for the rest of love. Love to me was only surviving.